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C. W. STRINGHAM. 'GAR FENDER.

10,533,969 Patented Feb. 12, 1895.A

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CHARLES WV. STRINGHAM, OF BROOKLYN, NEWYVORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF FIVE-SIXTHS vTO GEORGE II. THOMPSON AND JOHN A. WILLIAMS, OE SAME PLACE, AND J OI-IN H. FAULSTICH,

ERICK HAUsMANN, AND GEORGE Kanus, QF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAR-PEN DER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 533,969, 'dated Februaryr 12, 1895.

Y Application filed February 3, 1894. Serial No. 498,976- (NO mOdeL? To a/ZZ whom it may concern: truck-frame,withoutdeparting from thespirit l Be it known that I, CHARLES W. STRING- of my invention. 5o

HAM, a citizen of the United States, residing y TheV letter k is a bar or rod of metal, or at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State other suitable material, rigidly attached on 5 of New York, have invented certain new and each side of the car to that part of the truckuseful Improvements in Gar-Fenders, which frame designated by the letter 7L', extending improvements are fully set forth in the. folparallel with the track l, and passing under 55 lowing specification and accompanying dravvthe step c to about the end of the dashboard ings, in which-I d. These rods .la are connected at the outer ro Figure l is a side view of the forward part extremities by across-piece m.

of a car with the fender'applied-thereto and The letter 'n denotes braces attached to, extended. Fig. 2 is a plan view with the carand extending obliquely from, the cross-piece 6o body removed. Eig. 3 is a front view. Fig. m, to that part of the truck-frame, 71,',to which 4c is a detail view partly in section, showing they are rigidly secured. 15 the locking device. The letter o denotes the sides of the fender, Similar reference-letters denote like parts conneted by h CFOSS'DGGS 19,19', and plO? in all the views.. v vided with sleeves q; which permit of their 6 5 The object of myinvention is t0 provide, a sliding back and forth on the rods k. These cheap and efficient, adjustable or extensible sleeves are provided With projections @adapto car-fender, and one which will not be subed 'i0 fll illlthe SlOS 1 in the IOdS l0- ject to the movement of the bodyof the car. The lette? S denotes a leaf-Spring attached The great difficulty with the fenders new in on each side of the fender, the free end of each 7o use is, that they are attached tov some part'of spring resting upon the under sideof the rod k. the ear-body, the motion of which causes the The letter if denotes projections extending, z 5 fender to move in whatever'way-the ear-body downward from each side ofthe forward part moves, thus creating sufficient space between of the fender toward the track. the fender and the ground to permit the body 'tt are bars slightly curved downwardly and 7 5 of a person struck by the ear to be @alight by extending from one cross-piecep to the other the wheels, or other parts ofthe running-gear cross-piece p. 3o of the car. The purpose of my invention is o denotes wire netting, or other suitable principally to overcome this objection, and material, attached to the sides and ends of it consistsof the means and mechanism herethe fenderand covering the same. The wire 8o inafter described, and more particularly netting is rolled over the front part of the y y pointed out in the claims. fender to serve as a cushion.

3 5 The invention is illustrated as applied to The letter w denotes upright posts of wood the ordinary street railway or electric car. or other suitable material, rigidly attached to Having reference to the drawings, the letand extending upwardly from the cross-piece 85 I ter a. denotes the body, b the platform, c the m, and connected by the cross-pieces at. step, d the dash-board, and e the brake of an The operation is as follows: When the 4o ordinary street-railway car. fender is not in use it may be shoved under f denotes the bumper, g the. truck-frame, the platform of the car and assumes the posiandhthe wheels of said car. tion shown in the dotted lines in Fig. l. 9o

1I are the springs between the car-body a -When itis desired to extend the fender, the

and the truck-frame g. same is drawn out from under the car, the

45 Theletterhindieates that partofthetrucksleeves q sliding Von the rods 7c permitting frame g to which my fender is preferably at- 'of such movement; the projections 'y engage tached,'although it is obvious that it may be the slots fr, thereby preventing the fender 95 attached to any other desirable part of the from being pushed back under the car. The

springs s by their pressure upon the under side of the rods c prevent the fender and the projections t from touching the ground. The upright posts w and the cross-pieces a; serve to cover up the space between' the forward end of the platform and the cross-bar m. Vhen it is desired to shove the fender under .the car, the fender is raised suiiciently to diseugage the projections y from the slots r, and the same may be then pushed with all its parts under the platform of the car. By this arrangement of parts I am enabled to keep the fender when extended in a sta-tionary position and at a slight distance from the ground, the stability being due to the fact that the fender is attached to the truckframe instead of to the car-body.

It the fender meets with a movable obstruction, such obstruction, when struck, is caused to fall on the fender, the projections t on the front part of the fender falling upon the track and serving, in a measure, as a brake.

It is obvious that the means for preventing the fender when extended from being pushed back under the platform, may be of Avarious constructions, and that the springs, for keeping the fender olii` the ground, may be of various kinds and attached at different places on the fender, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

4What I claim, and desire to secure by Let.- ters Patent, is

l. In a railway car, or other like vehicle, the combination of the posts tu, the rods la, provided with slots 7", the fender provided with sleeves q having projections y, and the springs s, substantially as described.

2. In a railway car, or other like vehicle, the combination of the posts w, the rods 7c, provided with slots r, the fender, provided with sleeves q, having projections y, the springs s and the projections t, substantially as described.

3. In a railway car, or other like vehicle, the combination ot' the rods 7c, provided with slots r, the fender, provided with sleeves q, having projections y, the springs s, the projections t, the upright posts w and the cross-pieces fr, substantially as described.

4. In a railway car, or other vehicle, the combination of the rods 7o, provided with slots fr, and a fender provided with sleeves q, having projections y, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

5. In a railway car, or other vehicle, the combination of the rods 7c, provided with slots o", a fender, provided with sleeves q, having projections y, and the projections t, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

6. In a railway car, or other like vehicle, the combination of the posts w, cross-pieces as, the rods k, provided with slots r, and a fender provided with sleeves q, having projections y, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

7. In a railway car, or other like vehicle, the combination ofthe rods 7c, provided with slots 1', a fender provided with sleeves q, having projections y, and the springs s, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

8. In a railway car, or other' like vehicle, the combination of the rods 7a, provided with slots r, a fender provided with sleeves q, having projections y, and a cushioning device on the forward part of said fender, substantially as herein described.

9. In a railway car, or other like vehicle, the p combination of the upright posts lw, the crosspieces and an extensible car-fender provided with projections t, all substantially as described. 

